IP: EPIC Press Club Washington DC

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

PRESS RELEASE

"The Internet, Privacy and the Open Source Movement"


WHAT:   Panel discussions at the National Press Club to
celebrate the publication of three new books: Jeffrey Rosen, The
Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (Random
House 2000); Robert Ellis Smith, Ben Franklin's Web Site:
Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet
(Privacy Journal 2000); and Free For All: How Linux and The Free
Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans (Harper Business
2000)

WHO:    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and
distinguished speakers

WHERE   National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor,
Washington, DC 20045

DATE            Monday, June 5, 2000 TIME                       8:00 - 11:00
a.m.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) will host a
two-panel event at the National Press Club to discuss privacy
and the open source movement and to celebrate new publications
in these areas.  The panels will feature distinguished authors,
technical experts, professors in law and public policy, and
public interest advocates.

8:00            Registration

8:45 - 9:00     Welcome: Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director,
EPIC

9:00 - 10:00:   Panel I "From Ben Franklin's Web Site to the
Destruction of Privacy in America"

Moderator:      Deborah Hurley, Executive Director, Harvard
Information Infrastructure Project, Kennedy School of Government

(over) Professor Anita Allen-Castellito, University of
Pennsylvania Law School

Professor David Flaherty, Former Information and Privacy
Commissioner, British Columbia

Professor Gary Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Jeffrey Rosen, author, "The Unwanted Gaze: The
Destruction of Privacy in America"

Robert Ellis Smith, author, Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and
Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet



10:00 - 11:00   Panel II  "The Free Software Movement"

Moderator:      Professor James Boyle, American University Law
School

Professor Julie Cohen, Georgetown University Law Center

Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Austin Hill, President, Zero KnowledgeSystems

Barbara Simons, President, Association for Computing Machinery

Peter Wayner, author, Free For All: How Linux and the Software
Movement Undercut the High- Tech Titans


For more details and purchase information on these publications
visit  the EPIC Bookstore (epic.org/bookstore/)

Contact:  Sarah Andrews, EPIC Policy Analyst,  (202) 483 1140,
<andrews () epic org>